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To be fair if that bloke is talking truth, the deal was done around 12 Dec, then it did take around one month from 12 Dec to 6 Jan. The story is complete.

It should be just formality now. The dark age is finally over. Now let's hope Saudi is really behind Amanda...

He is unbelievable. He is still not an excellent defender but his impact on other teammates are simply unreal.

I think Manquillo should be credited for keeping Shaqiri quiet.

Get fuckin in. That's huge, fucking huge results.

How can that not be a penalty!?

That's surprisingly good half for us to be honest.

Oh fucking hell Clark

I don't want him sacked, I still want him to be our manager, but I won't be surprised that he is heavily criticised nor I would spend any effort defending him. In short, he has done a lot of things that do him no favour, and make himself fulnerable to critics. The handling of Mitrovic, the signings (if the player is that shit, why waste money?), Gamez Mbemba and Manquillo, 12m spent on a bench player instead of starting 11, persistence of Ritchie, suicidal 442, strange subs etc. He deserves the sticks. Rightly so. He is "failing" in the sense that he didn't really utilise all his resources on hand. Just he shouldn't be sacked due to no replacement and as some people said "his hand is tied". It has been said last season already. A "world class manager", "top elite in Europe", should be better than this.

Well who is he young players Rafa mentioned? Merino? Yedlin? Darlow? Or Murphy? What the fuck that excuse is? I can't get it.

This the same 4-4-2 everyone reckoned was the solution earlier in the season, and was definitely going to solve our attacking problems? Just checking like. I am not in the "everyone" list. I said long time ago playing Gayle would disrupt our team chemistry and we must play 4231, starting Joselu and Perez. Merino again have another poor game today due to fatigue - he is like this every time we play a two men midfield. Absolutely no fucking surprise we are that shit today when we go for 442.

442. How many lessons u need Rafa?

What the fuck is that Atsu?

Blame the players. Rafa has his hands tied.

What a "break"

Great defending by Dummett

Joselu decisions today is fucking bad

Fucking poor attempt, that.

No one should happy for this performance.

What the fuck is this?

442. Why surprise?

Yedlin has no defense.

This could back fire massively if we couldn't get a replacement in. I am a bit amazed by the optimism here to be honest. I know the take over talk has raised people's hope in Jan but we are Newcastle United man, we always got the worst thing to happen. Selling Mitro and nth else to come in could seal our fate.

He dived, he got a yellow card, that's it, well justified. To say "if it is blah blah blah" is meaningless. We should be ashamed for what he did instead of defending him FFS.

He will blossom elsewhere. Nailed.